For cryonics patients to eventually be revived, the future just has to be very rich (like Vladimir says) and contain a few altruists. Sounds like a good bet
Seeing as the theme of this blog is overcoming bias, one ought to be conscious of an overly hopeful bias. It may well be a deficiency of my own imagination but I can’t see the notion of reviving old geezers having much of an appeal for future altruists but that doesn’t even matter: It’s likely that technology will be sufficiently advanced at some stage to postpone ageing and death and it’s probable that this will happen before the technology exists to revive “dead” people cutting at a stroke the financial viability of cryonics companies and the income stream which keeps their freezers from defrosting. Should that happen there just won’t be any you for a future altruist to revive should they even want to.
Seeing as the theme of this blog is overcoming bias, one ought to be conscious of an overly hopeful bias. It may well be a deficiency of my own imagination but I can’t see the notion of reviving old geezers having much of an appeal for future altruists but that doesn’t even matter: It’s likely that technology will be sufficiently advanced at some stage to postpone ageing and death and it’s probable that this will happen before the technology exists to revive “dead” people cutting at a stroke the financial viability of cryonics companies and the income stream which keeps their freezers from defrosting. Should that happen there just won’t be any you for a future altruist to revive should they even want to.